英语词汇“news bee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

news bee n. U.S. and Caribbean colloquial any large or noticeable insect, typically a bumblebee, a beetle, or a hoverfly, whose appearance in a house or around a person is supposed, in popular folklore, to indicate that news of some kind will soon arrive.

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1937 T. Turner in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 163 One will hear hasty news if a ‘news bee’ buzzes around him.

1949 E. Webber Backwoods Teacher 201 When a yellow news bee hovers around you it means you'll get a letter with good news, and..a black one foretells bad news.

1976 Advocate News (Barbados) 5 May 10 The flowers are very attractive to the large Bees which we call News Bees, with their shiny black wing cases, Bees well over an inch long.

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